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Recent exploration
result for Kerala are very encouraging, Gold worth of about Rs 600 croe
at current price is present in the Attapadi, Nilambur and Mankada areas in
Malappuram district. These areas are found to be highly potential for
Gold. Among them the Atapadi gold belt is found to be most potential. It
is made up of gneissic rocks. The gold is found in three subparallel
load zones. Similarly six lensoid gold bearing load zones in Nilambur
and two gold load zones of sulphide rich
high grade rocks at Mankada are also
recorded. Kottathara area of Nilambur region hold maximum, 80000 tonnes
of gold in its reserve. Gold at the rate of 13.8 grams can be obtained
from here.

Kerala government is planning to go for mining. Four
gram of gold per tonne from any ore lead zone is viable,
if continued for twenty years. However government should
take precaution while going for exploration, because of
the low percentage of gold and erratic distribution of
gold in ore. Each area should have distinct strategy for
exploration depending upon the nature of ore. Locations
are so far found viable for mining. It is wandered why
kerala has not gone for mining up to now. In karnataka’s
kolar mining has produced so far 800 tonnes of gold upto
an average depth of 2750 metre in area of 8 kilometres.
99% percent of gold in India come from 40000 sq km area
covering Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and
Kerala.

It is very likely that kerala is heading for gold
mining. And once the mining is started in Malappuram and
Attapadi valley, issues of environment will come in
focus. The valleys may be turned in to grey. The
ecological and natural balance may get disturbed. For
the country to sustain growth in economy, proper
utilization of mineral wealth is necessary. However all
this thing should we done by using the modern mining
technologies by causes less harm to the environment?
First a study of impact of mining on environment should
we done. Proper benefit of Country, people and
environment should be taken care of.

Arvind
Katoch - EzineArticles Expert

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